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13.2 (12.4); depth of bill at base, 7.i-8.1 (7.6); tarsus 20 1-22 1 

 (20.6); middle toe, 13-15.2 (14.5). ^ 



Immature maZe.— Similar to the adult male, but black of head 

 replaced by olive, more or less blotched or mixed with black; white 

 head-stripes less distinct, less purely white; orange patch on foreneck 

 absent or slightly indicated, and yellow of breast, etc., paler; orange 

 nuchal collar narrower, more yellow; wings and tail much as in adult 

 female. 



Island of Porto Rico, Greater Antilles. 



Tanagra portoricensis Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., x, 1866, 252 (Porto 



Rico). 

 [Spindali^l portoricemis Solatek and Salvin, Noni. Av. Neotr 1873 21 — Cory 



List Birds W. I., 1885, 11. . . • 



SpindalispoHoricensis Gvimi^ACR, Journ. furOrn., 1874, 311; 1878, 159, 168- Anal 



Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., vii, 1878, 188.— Coky, Auk, iii, 1886, 197 (synonymy' 



descr.); Birds W. L, 1889, 84 (do.); Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 16, 114, 132.— 



ScLATEK, Oat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 167. 

 Tanagra {Spindalis) portoricensis Sundbvall, Ofv. K. Vet.-Ak FOrh Stockh 



1869, 596. 



SPINDALIS MULTICOLOR (Vieillot). 

 HAITIAN SPINDAIIS. 



Aduli male.— Filenm and sides of head black, relieved by a super- 

 ciliary stripe and broader malar stripe of white, the former extend- 

 ing to the nape; chin and upper throat also white; entire hindneck 

 and sides of neck rich yellow (Indian yellow); back yellowish olive- 

 green, the scapulars similar but darker and somewhat mixed with 

 dusky anteriorly; whole rump orange-tawny, becoming yellowish next 

 to olive-green of back, the upper tail-coverts rather deeper orange- 

 tawny, sometimes inclining to yellowish chestnut; lesser wing-coverts 

 chestnut; rest of wings black, the middle coverts narrowly margined 

 with olive-green, the greater coverts and tertials broadly edged with 

 white, the other secondaries and the primaries more narrowly edged 

 with white, the latter (except the outermost) white at base of outer 

 web, forming a more or less extensive patch; tail black, the outermost 

 rectrix with about the terminal half of inner web white (except at tip), 

 the corresponding part of outer web also mostly white; next rectrix 

 with a similar but slightly shorter patch of white on inner web; third 

 with a large terminal or subterminal spot of white; median line of 

 lower throat canary yellow, bordered along each side by a large patch 

 of black (narrow and pointed anteriorly, broad and rounded posteriori}^), 

 extending posteriorly much beyond the yellow, or as far as the pos- 

 terior extremity of the white malar stripe; space between posterior 

 half of these black patches, extending considerably upon median por- 

 tion of chest, chestnut; sides of chest, whole breast, and upper abdo- 

 men bright j-^ellow (lemon or gamboge); lower abdomen, anal region, 



' Seven specimens, 



